]
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FOOTNOTES ON THE TEXT
[Footnote A: Some have thought that Wordsworth had S.
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FOOTNOTES ON THE TEXT
[Footnote A: Some have thought that Wordsworth had S.
William Wordsworth
1802.
]
[Variant 38:
1807.
Which he delivered with demeanour kind,
Yet stately . . . MS. 1802. ]
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SUB-VARIANTS ON THE TEXT
[Sub-Variant i:
. . . hither side, MS. 1802. ]
[Sub-Variant ii:
He all the while before me being full in view. MS. 1802.
]
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FOOTNOTES ON THE TEXT
[Footnote A: Some have thought that Wordsworth had S. T. C. in his mind,
in writing this stanza. I cannot agree with this. The value and interest
of the poem would be lessened by our imagining that Wordsworth's heart
never failed him; and that, when he appears to moralise at his own
expense, he was doing so at Coleridge's. Besides, the date of this poem,
taken in connection with entries in the Grasmere Journal of Dorothy
Wordsworth, makes it all but certain that Coleridge was not referred
to. --Ed. ]
[Footnote B: Compare in 'The Matron of Jedborough and her Husband', p.
417, ll. 66-69:
'Some inward trouble suddenly
Broke from the Matron's strong black eye--
A remnant of uneasy light,
A flash of something over-bright! '
Ed. ]
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SUB-FOOTNOTE ON THE TEXT
[Sub-Footnote i: Additional variants obtained from this source are
inserted as "MS. 1802. "--Ed. ]
The late Bishop of Lincoln, in the 'Memoirs' of his uncle (vol.
[Variant 38:
1807.
Which he delivered with demeanour kind,
Yet stately . . . MS. 1802. ]
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SUB-VARIANTS ON THE TEXT
[Sub-Variant i:
. . . hither side, MS. 1802. ]
[Sub-Variant ii:
He all the while before me being full in view. MS. 1802.
]
* * * * *
FOOTNOTES ON THE TEXT
[Footnote A: Some have thought that Wordsworth had S. T. C. in his mind,
in writing this stanza. I cannot agree with this. The value and interest
of the poem would be lessened by our imagining that Wordsworth's heart
never failed him; and that, when he appears to moralise at his own
expense, he was doing so at Coleridge's. Besides, the date of this poem,
taken in connection with entries in the Grasmere Journal of Dorothy
Wordsworth, makes it all but certain that Coleridge was not referred
to. --Ed. ]
[Footnote B: Compare in 'The Matron of Jedborough and her Husband', p.
417, ll. 66-69:
'Some inward trouble suddenly
Broke from the Matron's strong black eye--
A remnant of uneasy light,
A flash of something over-bright! '
Ed. ]
* * * * *
SUB-FOOTNOTE ON THE TEXT
[Sub-Footnote i: Additional variants obtained from this source are
inserted as "MS. 1802. "--Ed. ]
The late Bishop of Lincoln, in the 'Memoirs' of his uncle (vol.
